› added 4 years ago

50

TIL Mel Brooks' production company Brooksfilms has produced non-comedy films such as The Elephant Man and The Fly. Brooks himself was uncredited on these films to avoid confusion from audiences who probably would have expected a comedy.

Read more wikipedia.org

via reddit.com

A9od TIL Ng Mui, a legendary Shaolin nun, met a teenage girl named Yim Wing-Chun who was being harrassed into marrying a thug and taught her how to defend herself. Hundreds of years later, Bruce Lee would learn what is now called Wing-Chun, a form which was specifically made for a woman by a woman.
nenVo TIL that Queen's 1985 Live Aid performance (seen at the end of the Bohemian Rhapsody movie) was voted the greatest live performance in the history of rock. Jimi Hendrix's appearance at Woodstock in August 1969 came second, followed by the Sex Pistols in 1976.
xmPg TIL that during the cold war, when navy divers repairing a whale enclosure heard a human-like voice saying “out, out, out,” and got out of the water to see nobody, they found out that a beluga whale named “Noc” had learned to mimic human speech and was trying to communicate with them.
1ap6V TIL doctors in Poland created a fake Typhus epidemic to ward off Nazis, and ended up saving approx 8,000 people from death or imprisonment in concentration camps.
oLLr TIL that an Alabama bloodhound joined a half marathon after her owner let her out to go pee. She ran the entire 13.1 miles and finished 7th.